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  When Evil Speaks the Truth

  Remember Tareq Aziz, the senior official in Saddam Hussein’s regime who frequently spoke on its behalf to Western audiences? He will soon stand trial in Baghdad, alongside Saddam and other former henchmen. As a mouthpiece for the most brutal regime anywhere in recent history, he deserves no pity. But consider this: He frequently spoke the…

  By Yossi Alpher

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• Letters

  October 15, 2004

  Our Invisible Poor Of course the leaders of Jewish organizations are amazed that there is such a thing as poor Jews in the United States — they only deal with other rich Jews (“Nearly a Million Living in Poor Jewish Households,” October 8). Poor Jews, like the poor of the United States in general, are…

  Oct 15, 2004 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Helping Afghans Fight for Themselves

  Afghanistan, already a major front in the war on terrorism, now has also become an important front in the American presidential campaign. Senator John Kerry has charged that the Bush administration made a huge mistake in the war against terrorism by diverting military forces from Afghanistan to Iraq. “Iraq is not even the center of…

  By James Phillips Oct 8, 2004 | 4 min read

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  Among the Villagers of Le Chambon

  As the Holocaust loomed, a few Jews made their way to the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the mountains of south-central France, 350 miles south of Paris. And the peasants and villagers took in the Jews who came. And the Jews kept coming. And the people kept taking them in. In this one speck of…

  By Pierre Sauvage Oct 8, 2004 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Bearing Freedom

  There are some who contend that the principal difference between President Bush and Senator John Kerry is that one is moved by ethics and ideology, the other by process and pragmatism. In the first of their debates, for example, the president, it is said, laid down an ethical and ideological marker: This war, our war…

  By Leonard Fein Oct 8, 2004 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Poor Among Us

  The numbers have finally started to come in, and it turns out that much of what we thought we knew about Jewish wealth and poverty is wrong. Several new demographic studies, reported on Page 1 by Nathaniel Popper, indicate that Jews are not the affluent subset within the American population that they are commonly thought…

  Oct 8, 2004 | 3 min read
• Letters

  October 8, 2004

  Promote Discourse On Leaders’ Israel Stance An October 1 letter to the editor mirrors almost to the word a complaint sent to me via e-mail by Ira Foreman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, following the inclusion of my thoughts on the potential for mischief inherent in the Senator John Kerry campaign’s evocation…

  Oct 8, 2004 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Israel’s Window

  There was an air of tedious familiarity in the latest United Nations debate on Israel. Like so many times before, Palestinian provocation led to Israeli military action, prompting the Palestinians to convene the Security Council, which obligingly took up a condemnation of Israel, which was vetoed by the United States. After the charade was done,…

  Oct 8, 2004 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  When Victory Is No Victory at All

  It is typical of the prolonged, ambiguous war between Israel and the Palestinians that no one can really say who prevails at a certain point in time. To some strategists, the important issue is who appears to be winning. “Let us project victory,” was the sound advice given once by Brigadier General Eival Gilady, former…

  By Ofer Shelah Oct 8, 2004 | 4 min read
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  A Muse for Philip Roth

  Most of the speculation about how American Jews will vote in November has been about the Bush-Kerry contest, without much consideration as to the issues that are motivating American Jews one way or another. With only a month until the elections, the findings from two new studies — the Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion,…

  By Bethamie Horowitz Oct 1, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  A Failure of Moral Vision

  The movement toward divestment from Israel by mainline Protestant churches — first the Presbyterians and now, perhaps, the Anglicans — is an alarming measure of how badly Israel’s reputation in the West has been damaged in the last four years. The uneven warfare of the intifada, the spreading global specter of Muslim rage and the…

  Oct 1, 2004 | 3 min read